June 8--June 14, 1998

It's not just a terrible Barry Levinson movie featuring Robin Williams and LL Cool J. It's a state of mind.

Toys rock. Toys are fun. Toys are possessions, and possessions make you cool. Teach your children to share their toys. Then they'll grow up and give Porsches to the poor.

6.8.98

Okay...Let's Get This Straight...

Geri Halliwell (a.k.a. "Old Spice") left the Spice Girls because of "artistic differences." Bob Hope isn't dead. Michael Jordan fell down in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Finals. The state of New York selectively revived the death penalty...to kill a prison guard. Gay Day rocked the Magic Kingdom. The FTC is actually going to sue Intel. Instant replay worked at a sporting event (Belmont Stakes). The Vatican actually agreed to defrock a child-molesting priest. Former wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura won an endorsement for the governorship of Minnesota from Ross Perot's Reform Party.

Wow.


"If you suffered from small pox as a child or have eaten vanilla ice cream or have ever had sex, this drug may cause you to trip over, spew green slime and speak in tongues."


But what about those movies where nothing blows up, no one arrives from outer space and the body count is less than five? Don't they deserve their own little bits of crap for sugar-crazed ankle biters of all ages to demand?


Look at the whupping Mike Modano of the Stars received from the Red Wings. Clutching, grabbing, stabbing. Other team got a good player? Pop a cap in his ass.


This summer, for once, stop pretending what you're giving us is good. Instead, admit it's crap! Hell, intentionally give us crap!


We at the 'Hole have never been afraid of crap, however, and this last weekend we scored. Big.

 

Real life boxers are not controlled by humans, but by promoters. Like boxing promoters, the toy maker discovered that a bloodsport is much more effective when the combatants are different colors.